[In this issue, some items include only headlines with source and date, as an aid to those who may wish to reference the full texts of articles. "G&M" may substitute for "Globe and Mail" in some items below.]

Globe & Mail October 1, 2002:
1. Media that obediently speak the language of war, by John MacLachlan Gray [Summary: "The credulity of North American media over Iraq is matched only by their willingness to accept the administration's use of language." (The thrust is that the Tonkin Gulf Resolution to declare war against North VietNam was based on a lie concerning torpedo boats. Will Iraq be any different?)]
2. Statue of Cleopatra identified in Russia. A black basalt statue in the Hermitage Museum has been reassessed, noting three snakes on the forehead and the large nose, to be of that Queen.
3. Poisonous weed may treat brain cancer. Japanese scientists have found a molecule in jimson weed (apple thorn, stinkweed or stinkwort) that robs cancer cells of ability to spread. Reuters

Globe & Mail October 2, 2002:
1. Front page picture shows Chrétien accepting a statesman-of-the-year award from Henry Kissinger in New York.
2. Blair defends war readiness - [Summary: Ousting dictators such as Hussein is possible only when nations make good on ultimatums, British leader says.]
3. Milosevic a warmonger, Croatian leader says. [Summary: Trial testimony.]
4. Between Iraq and a hard place - UN Security council: Comment article. [Summary: The U.S. will not be satisfied with inspection process regardless.]
5. Obituary - George Stanley 1907-2002 Historian designed Canada's flag. [5-page illustrated article by Jane Doucet]:
Fluently bilingual, Alberta Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Historian, educator, author and former N.B. provincial lieutenant-governor. Head of history department at Royal Military College, Kingston for 20 years, teaching many who became senior officers in Canada's defence forces, including several chiefs of staff. He later returned to Mount Allison University to set up the first undergraduate program in Canadian Studies at a Canadian university. A founder of the University of Moncton, and author of 18 books and numerous articles. Countless honours, including Companion of the Order of Canada and 12 honorary degrees.

Globe & Mail October 4, 2002:
1. Decimal tyranny?, Metric madness [Social Studies miscellany] Following the French revolution, writes Brendan McWilliams in The Irish Times, intellectuals were irked by the traditional Gregorian calendar, redolent as it was of religion and Roman emperors. In 1792 they unveiled a radical new calendar. As well as having 12 months of 30 days each (with an extra five or six days to be added here and there), "the seven-day week was abandoned. Each month was divided instead into three weeks of 10 days each, with the last day ... being a rest day. The days themselves were subdivided into 10 'hours,' each of which turned out to be something over two old hours in length." Unfortunately people still liked going to church and having a rest every seven days. The metric calendar was abandoned in 1806.
2. Obituary - Nils Bohlin 1920-2002 Swedish engineer's seat belt has saved a million lives by Karl Ritter, Stockhol(k)m
[Also in The Weekly Telegraph No. 585 Oct. 9-15, 2002 - invented the three-point seatbelt.]

G&M Oct. 5/02 Israelis enter holy site to stop stone-throwers - Jerusalem.
Israeli police firing stun grenades burst into one of Islam's holiest sites in Jerusalem, the grand mosque compound known as al-Haram al-Sharif to Muslims and as Temple Mount to Jews. Witnesses reported at least five people were lightly wounded in the clash, which occurred after Palestinians had completed their Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques. The reason for the police action was to disperse Palestinians who had stoned policemen guarding the western wall plaza below, a holy site to Jews. The Palestinians were protesting against new U.S. legislation lending support to Israel's claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital, including the Old City. Reuters

G&M Oct. 7/02 Opus Dei followers celebrate new saint - More than 200,000 people watch rite for Spanish priest who founded controversial movement. [3-column illustrated article by Alan Freeman, Rome.]

The Weekly Telegraph No. 585 Oct. 9-15, 2002
1. p. 1 - IRA 'spy' at heart of Stormont, & p. 4 Northern Ireland - Sinn Fein rage at Stormont swoop. IRA mole 'gave Sinn Fein the upper hand'
2. Obituary - Prince Alexander Romanoff d. age 72, was a great grandson of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and the first member of the Imperial Family to return to Russia following the Revolution of 1918.
3. Obituary - Walter Annenberg - American billionaire publisher, philanthropist [Also an illustrated 5-column obituary in the G&M, Oct 9/02.]
4. Church Society plans to disown new archbishop by Jonathan Petre:
[Summary: The Conservative evangelical group said, because of his liberal stance on homosexuality, it would disown Dr Rowan Williams, the next Archbishop of Canterbury if he took up his post, effectively creating a schism in the church.]

Globe & Mail October 8, 2002 -
1. Planet or not, distant object rekindles debate by Stephen Strauss - An introduction to Quaoar - [(6-column illustrated article) Summary: The black body with diameter of 1,250 km. Circles the Sun in 288 years, generally beyond the orbit of Pluto.]
2. Antiracism crusader's conclusion was wrong, scientists say - by Anne McIlroy, Science Reporter -
A historic study that helped quash racist scientific theories almost a century ago has been shown to be false. Franz Boas, considered by many to be the father of U.S. anthropology, studied the size and shape of the heads of 13,000 European-born immigrants to the United States in the early 1900's. At the time, scientific racists were arguing that blacks were inferior to whites because their heads are smaller, and were attempting to classify people according to race based on the shape of their heads. Dr. Boas concluded that head shape has nothing to do with genetics and that you can't tell someone's race or ethnicity by examining their skull. He reported that children born in the United States of immigrants from Central Italy, Sicily, Poland, Hungary or Scotland had different shaped heads than their parents. The only explanation, he concluded, is that head shape and size are not inherited traits and can't be used to argue that one race or ethnic group is inferior to another. The results of the study, published in 1912, refuted the work of scientific racists. But U.S. researchers who recently reanalyzed his findings say Dr. Boas presented only a fraction of his work and that his conclusions were wrong. They say his study actually showed a genetic link to head size and shape and that different ethnicities have different cranial characteristics. "He was fighting against the scientific racism. He had noble motives, there is no question of that," says Richard Jantz, a professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee and one of the authors of the study. His graduate student and co-author, Corey Sparks, says he doesn't believe Dr. Boas lied or fudged the data. He was an antiracism crusader, a man who took a courageous stand in an era when many academics believed there was solid physical evidence that blacks were intellectually inferior. "I think he knew how to present the data to show the things he wanted." Modern science, including the mapping of the human genome, has shown that very few genetic differences exist between races. But one of those differences, according to Dr. Jantz, is cranial morphology.
That is why forensic anthropologists who do police work in the United States can usually identify whether a skull belonged to a black, a Caucasian or a person of Hispanic origin, Dr. Jantz said. But many critics say this kind of work has no basis in science and cite Dr. Boas's work as proof.
Critics also cited Dr. Boas when they argued that Dr. Jantz and other researchers should not be permitted to study the skull of Kennewick Man, an ancient skeleton discovered in 1996 on the banks of the Columbia River. Native groups and the U.S. government went to court to stop Dr. Jantz and others researchers from studying the skeleton, but a federal court judge recently sided with the scientists.

G&M Oct. 9/02: - Punctuation counts -
An illustration of why punctuation is important has been circulating on the Internet, reports The Hartford (Conn.) Courant. It contains two versions of a letter:

"Dear John: I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy - will you let me be yours? Gloria"

"Dear John: I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy - will you let me be? Yours Gloria"

COMMENT: Hebrew did not have present day punctuation! - Makes one think!

Globe & Mail, October 12, 2002:
1. Evangelicals at rally 'zealous for Zion' - Republican Party likely beneficiary of odd alliance of Christians, Jews by Doug Saunders, Washington [Summary: a 5-column illustrated article amplifies the theme.]
2. David takes on Goliath in U.S. copyright battle by Brian Kelcey, Washington. [Summary: Internet publisher vs. Walt Disney. "The real argument is not about copyright's length, but the nature of copyright itself."]

Globe & Mail, October 16, 2002 - Italy's royals allowed back home after 50 years.
Rome. After more than half a century in exile, the male heirs to Italy's discredited throne finally got the go-ahead yesterday to return home. The green light came from the country's highest court, which announced that a petition by anti-royalists to prolong the banishment had failed miserably, closing a troubled chapter in Italian history that dated back to the Second World War. Prince Vittorio Emanuele, 64, and his son Emanuele Filiberto, 30, hailed the news from their plush lakeside residence in Geneva. They plan to return to Italy in about a month. Reuters

SCIENCE Vol 298 4 Oct 2002 No. 5591 -
1. Georgia County Opens Door to Creationism - p. 35 -
Scientists take a dim view when a local school board inserts "disclaimers" into elementary and high school biology textbooks, saying that evolution is only a "theory." Directly affected are 95,000 students in Cobb County, a suburb of Atlanta.
2. House out of the Sagas - p. 49 -
[Summary: Archaeologists have discovered a 1000-year-old Viking longhouse built of turf, in Iceland, using induced electrical current in the ground. Air trapped in the root mats of the turf raises the resistance of turf-brick walls, giving them a distinct electrical signal. The building, 29 meters long and 9 meters wide, with 1.5-meter-thick walls, has wide earthen sleeping benches. Dating indicates 976-1042 AD.]

The Weekly Telegraph No 586, Oct 16-22, 2002 -
1. Obituary: HRH Prince Claus of the Netherlands - German who married Princess Beatrix despite public hostility but later won over his adopted countrymen. - 5-column illustrated article.
2. Capt Cook 'beaten to Australia' CAPTAIN COOK was beaten to the east coast of Australia by an unknown explorer who perished on the voyage, a newly discovered shipwreck suggests. James Cook claimed Australia for Britain in 1770 and is credited with being the first European explorer to discover and chart the continent's east coast. But archaeologists have found the remains of a wreck buried under six feet of sand at Fraser Island, on the Queensland coast. The 100-foot vessel, thought to be involved in a Spanish or Portuguese military expedition, almost certainly pre-dates Cook's arrival, possibly by more than a century.
3. £3.5bn asset seizures end mob rule by Bruce Johnston in Rome - SICILIAN magistrates have seized so much Mafia property that they are now administering three quarters of the capital, Palermo.
4. Scholars aghast at Fall of Adam - THE first monumental nude of the Renaissance, a renowned statue of Adam, was in pieces on Sunday after toppling over in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The accident left art scholars aghast and curators on their knees picking marble fragments off the floor. One side of the sculpture's base is believed to have buckled on Sunday night, tipping over the 6ft 3in masterpiece by the Venetian Tullio Lombardo...
5. Fewer Jews in America - THE number of Jews in America has fallen significantly for the first time in two centuries. According to the National Jewish Population Survey, which is carried out once a decade, some 5.2 million Jews live in the country, compared with 5.5 million a decade ago.
6. (Obituary) Garfield Todd dies aged 94 - SIR Garfield Todd, a former prime minister of Southern Rhodesia, whose life encapsulated the dramas and tragedies of what is now Zimbabwe, has died aged 94. He died in the Mater Dei hospital in Bulawayo on Sunday following a stroke after his morning swim at his home a week earlier.
[The Weekly Telegraph No. 587, Oct. 23-29, 2002 carried a 4-column illustrated parallel obituary.]

Globe & Mail Oct. 17/02 - Egyptian library back, 1,600 years past due.
Globe & Mail Oct. 19/02 - Two articles focus on Alexandria:
1. Reviving Alexandria's legacy - Almost 1,600 years after it burned to the ground, the greatest library of the ancient world has been rebuilt...
2. Diving into history - Once ruled by archeologists, Alexandria's harbour now draws recreational explorers. [Summary: The six-column illustrated article by Michael Buckley recounts the history of the site.]

G&M Oct 21/02 Obituary - Grace Hamblin - Gave blood, sweat, toil and tears to Churchills. LONDON. Grace Hamblin, the trusted private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine, has died. OBE in 1955, She was 94... . AP

Globe & Mail Oct. 22, 2002:
1. Famine in Afghanistan, Africa imminent, UN says.
2. Being female less of a burden in Iraq - Urban Iraqi women have opportunities unknown to their Mideast counterparts. (5-column, illustrated)
3. Burial-box inscription could point to Christ - Carving may be earliest written reference to Jesus outside the Bible, scholars say.
[COMMENT: We will doubtless have much more to report on this development elsewhere in future. Biblical Archaeology Review for November/December 2002 carries several excellent colour-illustrated articles relating to this artifact which your editor highly recommends that readers either procure or reference.]
4. Israel threatens harsh response to car bombing.
5. Carey speaks out on homosexuality - Advocates of full acceptance within the church are revisionists at odds with Scripture, archbishop of Canterbury says by Michael Valpy Religion and ethics Reporter.
6. Calgarian's bright idea wins recognition by Dawn Walton, Calgary. - University of Calgary professor Dave Irvine-Halliday has developed a cheap, reliable way to provide light for Third World households that don't have access to electricity. The fibre optics expert knew little about illumination when he began his search for a light source for remote villages. [Summary: After seeing the dark interior of a Nepalese school, he returned home to seek an answer for 2-billion such people. Five years later, Dr. Irvine-Halliday's Light Up the World Foundation has developed a safe, cheap and reliable light system, which uses just a fraction of the power Western countries suck up, and has helped to install it in about 1,000 homes in Africa, South Asia and Central America. He found a single white diode (LED) which uses less than a tenth of a watt of power can provide enough light for a child to read by. Now, with advances, an entire village can be lit with less energy than it takes to power the 100-watt light bulb. The system can be powered by solar panels and rechargeable batteries for a one-time cost of about $60 (U.S.) per household.]
7. Standard organic label rules take effect.

The Weekly Telegraph No. 587, Oct. 23-29, 2002 -
1. The Treasury's ship comes in. Some 300 years after the pride of the fleet, HMS Sussex, sank off Gibraltar with a secret cargo of gold, the richest shipwreck in history may now boost the Government's coffers by £1.5 billion. Adam Lusher talks to the men who will try to recover the treasure. [Summary: a 6-column illustrated article relates details.]
2. Meal opportunities under every stone. [Summary: weeds, small shoots pruned from vines, frogs, sea urchins, clams or snails are foods in foreign lands.]
3. Despair under the crisp blue sky. [Summary: AIDS and hunger grip Zimbabwe.]
4. Editorial: Victory for Europe's elites and article "Europe - A Nice result as Ireland says yes" [Summary: 2nd Irish referendum favours EU]
5. Peers reject adoption for gay couples by George Jones Political Editor
6. Real IRA admits to Omagh - Dissident republican group blames leaders as it disbands by Francis Elliott and Thomas Harding

Globe & Mail Oct. 23, 2002: 1. Obituary: Walter Anderson 1907-2002 (6-column illustrated article by Allison Lawlor) -
"Treated prisoners in Japanese camps. Doctor once said one worker died for every three railway ties laid." Born in Ratlam, India, he was a United Church missionary doctor, the son of missionaries, who as a prisoner during the Second World War delivered medical care in Japanese labour camps. He later served in India for 39 years (where his parents had served for 40 years).
2. Obituary: Sir Richard Sharp 1915-2002 by Alan Rusbridger
Landed at Singapore, five days before it fell to the Japanese, mentioned in dispatches for conspicuous gallantry, he spent years in captivity, keeping a graphic and vivid diary of his experiences building the railway through Thailand to meet the railway from Burma. British civil servant, born Aberdeen, Scotland, died Norfolk, England. The Guardian

Globe & Mail Oct. 24, 2002:
1. Obituary: Richard Helms, 1913-2002 - U.S. spymaster kept CIA's secrets - Former director played a vital role in many of the agency's most controversial and troubling operations (5-column illustrated article by Ronald Powers, Washington. AP)
2. Obituary: Elizabeth Longford Countess was historian and Labour activist. She wrote biographies of Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington, considered among the best portraits ever written. AP [Also 4-column illustrated obituary In Weekly Telgraph No. 588, Oct. 30-Nov. 5/02.]
3. Obituary: Geraldina Zog Former Albanian queen lived in exile until June.

Globe & Mail Oct. 25, 2002:
1. Mossad killed U.K. tycoon, new book says -
Los Angeles - British media tycoon Robert Maxwell was murdered by the Israeli intelligence agency, according to a new book that also alleges the flamboyant millionaire was a spy for Israel and had links to organized crime in Eastern Europe. Robert Maxwell, Israel's Super-spy, to be published in December, says that Israel's Mossad decided to get rid of Mr. Maxwell because he was threatening to expose his knowledge of Israeli secrets unless he received Israeli help in propping up his failing businesses. Mr. Maxwell's sudden death at sea in November of 1991 brought about the collapse of his world-wide publishing empire. It triggered varying theories about his death, ranging from suicide and murder to accident. He disappeared overboard just as the complex web of financial deals keeping his businesses afloat was beginning to unravel, and a few weeks after U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a book saying that Mr. Maxwell had close ties with the Israeli intelligence agency. Mr. Maxwell had denied those claims and initiated a lawsuit against Mr. Hersh for libel in the weeks before he died. The new book, by British thriller writer Gordon Thomas and Irish journalist Martin Dillon, is based on interviews with former Mossad agents and chiefs, including David Kimche, a former Mossad official. Reuters
2. Obituary: Norbert Schultze Composer plagued by success of Lili Marleen. Frankfurt. German composer Norbert Schultze, whose song, Lili Marleen struck a chord with Second World War soldiers on both sides of the battle lines, died near Munich Oct 14. He was 91... (Further details followed.)
[Also G&M Nov. 8/02, 4-column, illustrated account.]

G&M Oct. 26/02 Banker was slain, Rome tribunal concludes.
Rome. Roberto Calvi, the Vatican-connected financier implicated in Italy's biggest postwar banking scandal, was a murder victim and not a suicide, a panel of forensic experts reportedly has concluded 20 years after his death... . His body was found hanging under a London bridge in 1982 within days of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, of which he was president and in which the Vatican's bank held a big stake. Mr. Calvi's family has long said that he was slain. AP
[Above also in Weekly Telegraph No. 588, Oct. 30-Nov. 5, 2002 and 6-col. Illustrated article in G&M Nov. 4, 2002]
G&M Oct. 26/02 How the metric system got off on the wrong foot (4-column illlustrated book review of The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder, Free Press, 402 pages, $42, Reviewed by Simon Winchester.)
Weekly Telegraph No. 588, Oct. 30-Nov. 5, 2002:
1. Fraud 'ruining opium battle' - OPIUM production in Afghanistan has risen 18-fold since the fall of the Taliban, the United Nations said. According to a satellite survey, backed up by verification on the ground, opium poppies are being cultivated in 24 of Afghanistan's 32 provinces. Britain has taken the lead on anti-drugs efforts in Afghanistan, from which about 80 per cent of heroin on British streets originates. But it is claimed that its poppy eradication scheme has been wrecked by fraud.
[&: Jane's Intelligence Digest 1 Nov./02]
2. El Alamein leaders' sons stand together in tribute - THE SONS of Gen Bernard Montgomery and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel stood side by side last week at a service of remembrance marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein. More than 1,000 veterans paid their respects in Westminster Abbey to those of the Eighth Army who died during the 12-day desert conflict in 1942. Members of the Royal Family, including Prince Philip and the Princess royal, joined Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Dr. Manfred Rommel at the service... Viscount Montgomery read from Isaiah 35 and Dr. Rommel from Romans 12... .
3. 'Stonehenge' discovered - A SERIES of prehistoric stone structures, reminiscent of Stonehenge but taller and possibly earlier, have been located 3,500ft above sea level on a mountain in Calabria, southern Italy. The structures - now largely in ruins as a result of earthquakes - located near Nardodipace are mainly made up of two columns of large, square granite blocks, topped by a lintel.
4. Satisfyingly good for a sweet tooth (4-columns, illustrated, on Honey, mentioning Internet sites like www.honeyshop.co.uk pertaining to the subject.)

Globe & Mail November.5, 2002:
1. Jailed JDL chairman declared brain-dead -
Los Angeles. Controversial Jewish Defense League Chairman Irv Rubin, in jail on charges of plotting to bomb a Muslim building and a congressman's office, slit his own throat and leaped over a railing yesterday in a suicide bid, his lawyer said. Hospital officials later said Mr. Rubin was brain-dead and on life support. Mr. Rubin, 56, had been increasingly despondent, lawyer Mark Werksman said. Reuters
2. Obituary: Israel Amir - Israeli soldier forged country's air force.

Globe & Mail November 7, 2002: Obituary The Duke of Bedford (5-column, illustrated account.)

Globe & Mail November 8, 2002: Gibraltans say No to shared sovereignty by Alan Freeman, Gibraltar - (3-columns, illustrated)
[Also in Weekly Telegraph No. 590, Nov 13-19, 2002] -
[Summary: The referendum vote by Gibraltans was 98.97 per cent to reject the principle of joint sovereignty with Spain.]
Globe & Mail November 9, 2002: Photos of hooded terror prisoners rekindle debate by Stephanie Nolen -
Colour photos of shackled and hooded terror prisoners from Afghanistan, apparently taken as a souvenir by a U.S. soldier, were mysteriously made public yesterday and brought renewed allegations of human-rights violations against the United States for treatment of captives in its war on terror. (6-column article.)

Legion Magazine, Vol 77 No 5, November/December 2002 [Royal Canadian Legion] p. 55:
Commonwealth Veterans Organization Changes Name, by Bob Butt -
"It is no longer the British Commonwealth Ex-Services League, or the BCEL. It is now the Commonwealth Ex-Services League, or CEL. Delegates to the 28th Triennial Conference in London, England, July 7-13, voted unanimously to drop the word British from the title...."

Errata: In the last issue,
p. 8, The obituary of Claude Saint-Cyr - Hatmaker to the Queen referred to a French fashion reference work, by Jacqueline Dermornex, Dictionary of Fashion in the 20th Century.
p.26, The obituary of John CP Constable, mentioned his great-great-grandfather.
In the same issue, the Letter from the Board Treasurer, p. 30, mentioned lower interest, taxes and higher operating expenses.
We regret these typographical errors.